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Re: text links on a separate page - compliant with 508?

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Jan 10, 2005 3:53PM

> Crikey, I thought javascript based navigation systems died sometime
> around 1998...

As long as Macromedia keeps releasing Dreamweaver and Firefox with their
bloated, inaccssible javscript-based fly-out menu creation wizards, I don't
think we'll be seeing an end to them anytime soon.

Also, people tend to forget that they can not only be inaccessible to screen
readers, but also PDA users, text browser users, keyboard users and those
with motor control issues.

> Seriously though, this webmaster may want to look at better, more
> modern, and gracefully degrading alternatives like Brothercake's UDM
> http://www.brothercake.com/site/products/menu/ (commercial),
> Suckerfish http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ or Son of
> Suckerfish http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/

Just to add to the list, this is another option:

http://projectseven.com/

Point being javascript fly-out menus aren't by default inaccessible, it's
just that there's a lot of poorly built ones out there that are.

I do agree with you, though, that a list of text links at the bottom of the
page would make things better than they currently are. By putting them on
every page, it'd be one less page people have to jump to to get through the
site.

-Darrel